Bulldogs v Lions, originally uploaded by Kevin Rudd PM. No reason for this post other than it’s clearly silly footie finals season, and perhaps only in Australia would a Prime Minister bet on the results of a football match with his Deputy … and then wear the winning team’s tie next day. Here’s Health Minister
Continue reading ...Nature’s Play Gym, originally uploaded by Dramagirl. It’s true what they say … there’s more inspiration to be had in getting up close with nature than can ever be had sitting at a keyboard. I spent a wonderful afternoon today in a city park on the Brisbane River. New Farm Park is filled with wonderful
Continue reading ...When I was a primary (elementary) school teacher, one of the jobs I hated most was playground duty. It meant losing your precious lunch or break ‘downtime’ to wander an always hot and dusty playground, often trailed by kids who liked nothing more than to tell tales on one another. You had to keep an
Continue reading ...Yes folks, if you live in the southern hemisphere, the days are getting longer, the birds are hard at it, and it’s time for spring cleaning. Perhaps your blog could do with a tidy out and a freshening up? Here are a few ideas to get you going. Are you running your blog platform’s latest
Continue reading ...I stumbled across this one today – one from the TED Talks series and recorded this year. It’s Natasha Tsakos talking briefly about the relationship between theatre and technology, and performing excerpts from her solo multimedia show ‘Upwake.’ Enjoy; it’s terrific and inspiring.
Continue reading ...It’s been a busy time here. I’ve been tinkering with a new blogsite, and rather than use my production workshop test blog, decided to be brave this afternoon, install a new plug in here and go with the flow. And to prove as Murphy’s law suggests, if things can go wrong, they will – they
Continue reading ...I’m spending some of my time designing a new site that will, I hope, act as an aggregator for Queensland theatre – and I mean Queensland, not just Brisbane. Can you hear my ‘regional’ voice shouting from the hill here? I went nuts recently chasing down reviews for a current show in Brisbane. Google’s fine,
Continue reading ...Suddenly it’s apparent how much performing arts touring is being done throughout Australia. Not that we haven’t always had small and large companies on the road most of the time since white settlement – well, maybe a little after white settlement – but it’s really, really visible right now. For the past few weeks, corporate
Continue reading ...If you want to organise a ‘blog that writes itself,’ perhaps to maintain a record of a special event like your summer holidays, and at the same time share it as it happens (almost) with friends and family, what I describe here is probably the simplest way to organise a real-time feed. I had a
Continue reading ...Perhaps it’s crafty, but I have to say there’s nothing particularly original about this kind of post. What it does is to provide a way for new readers to dig back into the archives, and for me to air some of my byegone posts that many consider to be ‘top.’ I’m using the word as
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